Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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We are wiser than we know.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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It's so cool, the number of emails I get from people saying I changed their life. It's pretty crazy.
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Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
